Decolonization
A short history
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9909608 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher Murray (0000-0003-0569-8658, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 93 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 970-972 |
| Publication date | 2017-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-5850 • E-ISSN: 1468-2346 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ia/iix133 |
| OpenAlex | W2727055816 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
As Jan C. Jansen and Jürgen Osterhammel state in the opening pages of their new book, Decolonization: a short history, the ‘lingering aftereffects’ of European empires’ unravelling in the mid-twentieth century continue to inhabit politics from Tunisia to Australia, from North Korea to Zimbabwe to Oxford (p. vii). Situated in a connected, if not shared, world history, decolonization was a seismic shift—with the accompanying images of aftershocks, tensions and ruinous debris—rather than a clean break. Jansen and Osterhammel's book is more compact and conventional than other historians' recent accounts of decolonization-as-global-upheaval. It is neither as sweeping nor as revisionist as Frederick Cooper's work, nor as rich and politically spiky as Timothy Parsons's. To say that this has to do with the built-in limitations of writing ‘a short history’, is true, but only to a point. Unlike the other two authors, who tend to zero in on the socio-political entanglements and continuities of imperial power and post-colonial politics, Jansen and Osterhammel choose to highlight the most straightforward and familiar lesson of decolonization: the world was once split up into ‘a handful of colonial empires’, and, after five or six decades, it had become ‘a plural world of sovereign states’ (p. vii). As a result, this is a decidedly necessary book, without being a sufficient one
Ancient history · Archaeology · Colonialism · Decolonization · Genealogy · Plural · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sovereignty · State (computer science · World history · Australian History and Society · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law · Philosophy
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Public Aspirations for a decolonised city. Food security and "re-storytelling"
The Inquisitor and the Moseret
Decolonizing African history
Migrant Activists and Cultural Spaces of Anticolonialism in Weimar Berlin
Empires and Nations in the Modern World
Glocalization, consumption, and cricket
Fueling Sovereignty
Governing sexual citizens
Universal Suffrage as Decolonization
| Citations per year | 1.38 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |